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Working Destiny WORKING WITH DESTINY . The Practice of Karma Research RUDOLF STEINER LIBRARY VYDZ014153 Working with Destiny The Golden Blade 1997 Rudolf SteinerLibraiy 65 Fern Hill Road Ghent, NY 12075 (518)872-7690 [email protected] Working with Destiny The practice of karma research The Golden Blade No. 49 Edited by William Forward and Andrew Wolpert Anthroposophy springs from the work and teaching of Rudolf Steiner. He describes it as a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe.' The aim of this yearly joumal is to bring the outlook of anthroposophy to bear on questions and activities of evident relevance to the present, in a way which may have a lasting value. It was founded in 1949 by Charles Davy and Arnold Freeman, who were its first editors. The title derives from an old Persian legend, according to which King Jamshid received from his god, Ahura Mazda, a golden blade with which to fiilfil his mission on earth. It carried the heavenly forces of light into the darkness of earthly substance, thus allowing its transformation. The legend points to the possibility that humanity, through wise and compassion ate work with the earth, can one day regain on a new level what was lost when the Age of Gold was supplanted by those of Silver, Bronze and Iron. Technology could serve this aim; instead of endangering our planet's life, it could help to make Floris Books the earth a new sun. Contents First published in 1996 by Floris Books. Editorial notes 7 © 1996 Floris Books, Edinburgh All rights reserved. No part of this publication may The karmic core of anthroposophy be reproduced without the prior permission of 13 Floris Books, 15 Harrison Gardens, Edinburgh. Virginia Sease Karma research N i c k T h o m a s 32 Intimations in images Nothart M. Rohlfs 37 Trauma versus karma H a n s P e t e r v a n M a n e n 46 Angels amongst us Hartwig Schiller 57 Karma and the Internet Dorit Winter 77 Shakespeare and world destiny Richard Ramsbotham 102 Karma and the mystery dramas John Gee 121 Notes on the contributors 127 British Library CIP Data available ISBN 0-86315-241-1 ISSN 0967-6708 Printed in Great Britain by Cromwell Press, Melksham, Wilts. Editorial notes To represent the knowledge of reincarnation and karma for the twentieth century and into the future was the essence of Rudolf Steiner's task. Lecturing and writing not only for those who had already committed themselves to a path of inner develop ment, this Christian initiate also addressed the public on themes that had till then been the preserve of secret brotherhoods. He knew that the interest in esotericism and the growing capacity to be individually responsible in matters of occult science demanded that he speak about how the faculties of supersensible cognition could be attained, as well as about the results of his clairvoyant research. In books such as Knowledge of Higher Worlds and Occult Science as well as in lectures and numerous other publications, Rudolf Steiner describes very specific exercises to develop the powers of thinking and observation, to penetrate the soul forces with greater consciousness and to meditate with full presence of mind. It is characteristic of spiritual science, just as with natural science, that every stage of investigation is consciously observed and understood so that the processes, as well as the result, are known. This is what distinguishes spiritual science from mysticism and other excursions into the occult, in which only the destina tion is experienced and the journey is veiled. The salient charac teristic of all these exercises is that they are to be practised regularly and repeatedly, and that they do not produce instant clairvoyance. Even the very specific karmic exercises that Rudolf Steiner also gave will not lead to sudden revelations of previous 9 8 WORKING WITH DESTINY EDITORIAL NOTES incarnations. It is much more the case that the consciously willed tion is self-evidently reliable, axiomatic. The analogy with natural faithfulness to such freely undertaken inner discipline may lead to science is pertinent and exact: if the process of observation is not a certain soul sensitivity and spirit receptivity that help to make axiomatically valid there can be no scientific process or hj^jothesis sense, to discern meaning and be awake to intimations of the to be proved or refuted. It is an uncomfortable but unavoidable fact that, in this area workings of destiny. This issue of The Golden Blade is dedicated to the exploration of growing public awareness, intense interest and specula of destiny and karma manifestations that have revealed themselves tion, there are unhealthy spiritual forces in the wings, ready to to the practice of such spiritual-scientific research methods. We take advantage of ingenuous and untrained prospectors. Their offer no sensational secrets about past lives, firstly, because mere credulity, although well intended, becomes fertile ground for the counter-evolutionary forces to plant partially true stories. curiosity without responsibility is inimical to the faculties of The apparently most compelling external circumstantial evi clairvoyance and, secondly, because, when such knowledge has been won, it is treated with the discretion that protects it from dence that corroborates the revelation of a previous earth life scandal-mongering. One is even tempted to say that sensational (there tumed out really to be a secret passage under the cellar!) revelations are prima facie suspect because the capacity to win only proves that the story corresponds to certain facts. It does karmic insight is inseparably linked with the knowledge of how to not prove that the individual to whom it is revealed had the handle such information appropriately. The reassuring aspect of supposed karmic connection with it. To be blunt: one can be this is that any occultist who invites and expects attention on the unwittingly possessed. In this way the timely knowledge of basis of claiming who he was in a previous life is certainly a reincarnation is undermined and wrecked by pseudo-experiences. The strategy is that when these spurious revelations are eventu charlatan, either lying or misusing the truth. No initiate who serves human evolution will allow the glory of a past incarnation ally exposed, they will, in the process, discredit the whole notion of repeated earth lives. It serves no good purpose to play down to lend credibility to his present endeavours. While the achieve these attempts to cut us off from our true spiritual heritage: ments of previous lives form the possibilities and tasks for suc ceeding incarnations, the accomplishments of each life must speak knowledge of reincarnation and karma is the foundation of our future culture. f o r t h e m s e l v e s . It is the epistemology of letting the matter speak for itself that Hans Peter van Manen, whose article on regression therapy explores this theme, is well knovm for his own investigations of eschews a guru whose superior consciousness displaces mine; that the workings of destiny. In addition to his much acclaimed book disdains the ouija board which purports to tell me 'who' and Twin Roads to the Millennium (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1988) he has 'what' but not 'how'; and that mistrusts the claims of spontaneous also published a lecture given in 1991 under the title Marie or hypnotically induced revelations of previous lives, precisely Steiner: Her Place in World Karma (Temple Lodge Press, 1995). because in all these the process of arriving at the information is This is an exemplary piece of karma research, in which he de not part of what is seen. If the karmic intimation does not validate scribes the careful processes of observation and modestly but itself, then there is a dependence on an unknown intermediary. clearly expressed hypothesis in such a way that the journey and That is not science: the matter does not speak for itself. It is a the destination are experienced as integral. The content of that characteristic of karmic research that the organs of spiritual lecture provides the complementary historical perspective on the perception have reached a degree of sensitivity that the observa / 10 WORKING WITH DESTINY E D I T O R I A L N O T E S H article by Virginia Sease, which illustrates most illuminatingly quences to the quality and potential of our meetings might be if how the laws of karma, in a particular situation, can be seen to they are substituted by virtually real intercourse on the Internet. run their course through lives of individuals, facilitating their Her clear and dispassionate analysis of the threat to the sanctity destinies. The theme of principles at work in karma is taken up by of the human encounter is imbued with love for the truth that Nick Thomas, who explores the individual manifestations of such will not shirk the challenge to engage with the opposition. Just forces which are non-mechanical, non-deterministic, unpredictable, what is at stake is the theme of Nothart Rohlfs' article, in which and yet disclose their lawfulness. he describes the images and impressions that disclose them The paradox of inevitability and unpredictability is one of the selves if we work consciously with the potential in our meetings features of karma that Hartwig Schiller identifies in his con with others. Awakening to the reality of another person through tribution based on his experience as a teacher. The keenly ob the schooled sensitivity Rohlfs has practised is something of an served aspects of collegial life at the level of individuals, place antidote to the dangers of the virtual interactions that Winter and time hold good at a more general level for any group of exposes.
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